May 7, 2021 a thought for today, When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens His. Traditional Proverb

This day started out perfectly with a visual call from Lexie and Drew and Jessie. Then we had to say goodbye for now and we all started out on the rest of the adventures of our day. Mine wasn’t all that exciting but the kind that has to be done like.... get food in the house. 

When we got home there was the usual getting them from the car to the porch, to the kitchen, to the frig/freezer/cupboards. Once that was accomplished, I was back at the computer.

The photo challenge for yesterday was "object". That's a wide open subject. I was at chruch doing some work and found a couple of things that would make and interesting photo. Here is one of them. 

At the top of the rest of today’s to-do list is getting the “message” in the envelopes with the bible study that I finished yesterday. I learned at the meeting I went to last night that I will be changing the routine a bit. I have been adding the lyrics of familiar hymns to the message sheet. There has been a request to make the type easier to read for the message so I have been asked to enlarge it. Now it will fit on both sides of the page, in place of the hymn that I choose weekly on the second side. 

The air is still cool, a little unusual for almost mid May. But I don’t want to complain too much, we will be getting hot weather soon. 

The word today is understand.  The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo.  Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel.  I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire.  Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo.  Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte.  Anger is a short madness. Horace. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes. In short I will part with anything for you but you. Mary Wortley Montagu. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Aristotle.  A short saying often contains much wisdom. Sophocles. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding, Leonardo da Vinci. To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions, Marcus Aurelius. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand, Confucius. A person hears only what they understand, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand, Leonardo da Vinci.  One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood, Seneca the Younger. Folks never understand the folks they hate, James Russell Lowell. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile, Henry David Thoreau. 

Today's photo theme is "half". This one caused some thought. I could have cut a fruit or something in half or left a door or gate half open. Sue was with me on this photo excursion, actually on our way home, and suggest this image. It is the racquet ball court at Westgate Park. The walls are different color about half way in the center. It also lent some other interesting features like the tree limbs and shadow. 

I as an animal lover love all animals, some more than others but still.....They are meant for this world as much as we humans. The article today contains information about a variety of animals within our scope of imagining. According to the article it is best to leave many baby animals to their parents’ care especially the ones in the wild, and only observe them from a distance safe enough as not to scare the baby or the mom. In spring time we will be seeing opossums, raccoons, squirrels and bats. Is a baby animal is found alone the best thing to is don’t touch unless it is injured. Look for bleeding and visible broken bones. Notice if it seems to have been “calling” out. Is it cold or wet or if they have been “attacked” by insects. According to the article those are the conditions that may require the help of a professional. It goes on to say that just because the baby may be alone it doesn’t mean it is injured or needs help. The “eastern cottontail rabbit and the white-tailed deer” sometimes leave their young for periods of time. It was interesting to learn the Cottontails only visit a nest twice a day, early morning and near dusk. They do this to keep from attracting predators to the nest. To the parent of a wild baby animal if a human picks it up it is kidnapping the baby. The only time to “interfere” is if the baby is in danger. In the deer family the parents will leave the baby where they think it is safe while they go to feed. There are two non-profit “rehabilitators” in the area who help with these situations. They are “Wild at Hart” and “Airmid Place”. They are twenty-four hour operations. At one of the centers they have fourteen infant raccoons that are being bottle fed and six squirrels that are being weaned. “It takes an hour and a half to feed them....every three and a half hours”. Their cages need cleaned, formula mixed and rehabilitation efforts maintained. Rabbie control measures are needed for these animals too. According the Ohio rules raccoons and foxes have to be released in the same county or township where they were found. The people running there establishments try to find people who will allow the animals to be released on their property. The lady who takes care of bat babies has built a new “flight cage” where she cares for the injured bats and rehabs them. One of the care givers care for bird species including raptors. 

Pizza night has rolled around again.....

Joy

  This "discard" is more like throw aways next to the alley.